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Policy recommendations for the Bay of Sechura delivered to Peruvian stakeholders
14/11/2025 | As part of the subproject “Participatory Modelling of Social-Ecological Futures of the Bay of Sechura”, researchers from the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) have presented Spanish-language policy recommendations for the Bay of...
10th CAMPUS AWARD: Deadline for nomination 16 December 2025
10/11/2025 | For this year's CAMPUS AWARD, lecturers at the University of Bremen can once again submit master's and doctoral theses on the topic of sustainability. The CAMPUS AWARD aims to provide a platform for theses on the topic of sustainability and to...
TropEcS Symposium – Three days of Earth System Modelling at ZMT
24/10/2025 | This September, the ZMT organised and hosted the TropEcS Symposium on Earth System Modelling. Over three days, more than 100 international experts, early-career researchers, colleagues, and partners from tropical regions – from Indonesia to Peru –...
News from the tropics and beyond: ZMT Newsletter #2/2025 now online
23/10/2025 | This edition of our newsletter takes you to a unique marine protected area south of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest in Bangladesh – the “Swatch of No ground”. Here, ZMT has been contributing to the sustainable integration of fair and viable options...
COLDEMAR: New Colombian-German Platform on Marine Biodiversity and Climate Change
14/10/2025 | A new bilateral research initiative named COLDEMAR (Colombian-German Knowledge Platform for Tropical Marine Biodiversity and Climate Change) has started its operations. It is led by the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Germany,...
ZMT contributed to launching two new EU All-Atlantic initiatives for coastal resilience and ocean collaboration
07/10/2025 | ZMT will be contributing to two major initiatives of the All-Atlantic Ocean Research and Innovation Alliance (AAORIA) that aim to strengthen coastal resilience and collaboration among early career ocean professionals (ECOPs). The new initiatives...
Report on ZMT research into sustainable aquaculture wins journalism award
29/09/2025 | The German Nutrition Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung e. V. - DGE) has recently awarded its 2025 Journalism Prize recognising amongts other a feature in German P.M. Magazin about research conducted at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Leibniz Environment and Development Symposium 2025
19/09/2025 | ZMT’s social sciences groups will host the Leibniz Environment and Development Symposium (LEADS) on 10 - 11 December 2025. This lunch-to-lunch gathering is designed for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to present advanced full paper drafts and...
Committed scientist and critical companion: In memory of Dr Irmtraut Hempel
18/09/2025 | The Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) mourns the passing of Dr Irmtraut Hempel (née Schneider), who died on 8 September in Molfsee near Kiel, just a few weeks before what would have been her 101st birthday. For 73 years Irmtraut...
Shaping our shared future: Invitation to a workshop with CEMarin on 26 September
16/09/2025 | On Friday, 26 September 2025, the Corporation Center of Excellence in Marine Sciences (CEMarin) invites all interested ZMT colleagues and researchers with a focus on Colombia and the wider region to a mini-workshop. The event will take place from...